A school leader wrote recently: “Michael, we know boys and girls learn differently, and by teaching to the minds of boys and girls, we have closed achievement gaps and improved student safety and behavior. This theory and the strategies work so well, we became a Gurian Model School–this has helped us to nurture the widest diversity of students. “But there is an idea circulating in our community, …
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October 1, 2018
This week we are proud to feature guest blogs by two of our Certified Trainers, Eva Dwight and Abigail Wald. To learn more about Eva and Abigail, please visit our Trainer page on www.gurianinstitute.com. We are so proud of our trainers for these publications in national venues. In her blog, Eva discusses the emotional lives of girls directly, providing science and story for the beauty and the challenges inherent in …
September 4, 2018
This month, the Gurian Institute is launching its new podcast in collaboration with our friend and colleague, Tim Wright. Tim and I have been providing podcasts through patreon.com and we will continue to provide members only podcasts, video clips, blogs, and tools through that service. To join the Gurian Community on Patreon, please go to https://www.patreon.com/user?u=7827875; from there, you’ll see the membership site and we would love to have …
September 24, 2018
What’s a gender expert doing writing a book of short stories?! It’s a reasonable question, since people often think of nonfiction and fiction as separate endeavors. And they are. But if you’re curious to read one answer and one blending of two genres, The Blind Woman and Other Stories will, I hope, touch your heart. I initially wrote these stories between 1987 and 2000; I’ve revised them on airplanes and …
September 10, 2018
“Our genomes are 99.9% identical from one person to the next as long as the two individuals being compared are two men or two women. But if we compare a woman and a man, the genetic differences are 15 times greater than the genetic differences for two males or two females.” –David C. Page, M.D., Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Everywhere we look, the two sexes …
August 27, 2018
Just last week, someone posted on Twitter the illusion that female and male brains are the same. Why talk about girls and boys, these folks ask, their brains are the same anyway. Nothing could be farther from the truth. While there is huge overlap between female and male brains, and while there are more than 3.5 billion + ways to be “girl/female” and 3.5 billion + ways to be “boy/male” …
August 20, 2018
As the new school year is set to begin, we at GI hope you will look at utilizing brain-based training during the school year. We live in a time of cultural upheaval in which superficial answers to profound questions often abound. Three sex- and gender-specific myths have emerged in the last few years in ways that are harmful to educator success and student growth. Myth 1: Male/female brain difference …
July 26, 2018
Thank you all so much for your warm reception to Saving Our Sons over the last year. We are working together to create a social revolution on behalf of boys; all the while, we are each gaining strength, courage, and practical strategies to raise and educate boys close by, in our homes, schools, and neighborhoods. Our revolution is a revolution from the ground up. In thirty years of working with …
July 16, 2018
Gail and I have two daughters, Gabrielle and Davita. They are 28 and 25 now, but when we were raising them, few things worried us more than their digital health. The digital world they—and we—lived in was a barrage, overwhelming—before we knew it, our children were spending many hours a day staring into screens. As we worked to help our daughters take control of their digital health, they would …
July 9, 2018
From the opening reception to the final session, the Gurian Summer Training Institute soared. We thank you all, whether you attended this year or not, and special thanks to those who came, participated, debated, learned, grew, and took the work home with them to empower and grow their communities. To all our speakers—Keynote, Troy Kemp; Featured Speaker, Susan Jentzsch; Strategies Trainer, Katey McPherson; Dr. Glynetta Deshon Fletcher, Dr. Lisa …
June 26, 2018
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